[jira] [Commented] (TEXT-104) Jaro Winkler Distance refers to similarity

["Rob Tompkins (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Rob Tompkins commented on TEXT-104:
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The conventional name for this string similarity score in the literature is the "Jaro-Winkler Distance" despite that it does not satisfy the triangle inequality. Unfortunately, that puts the misnomer here outside of our control. 

That said, what would your thought be here? Should we name the class {{JaroWinklerDistanceSimilarityScore}}? I'm definitely open to suggestion on how to more effectively convey that the "Jaro-Winkler Distance" is indeed not a mathematical metric.

> Jaro Winkler Distance refers to similarity
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>
>                 Key: TEXT-104
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-104
>             Project: Commons Text
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>            Reporter: Nikos Karagiannakis
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> The 'apply' method returns the similarity score instead of the distance score as implied from the class name. 
> It is stated in the javadoc, but it is not aligned with the approach of the rest similarity scores in the same package (e.g LevenshteinDetailedDistance). 
> Maybe a rename of the class or the method to avoid confusion?



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